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Perryville, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winnsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75494. It stands on Webster Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rhonesboro quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Perryville within Wood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,211 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning195
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOX ROAD GRASS FIRE
8 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSQUIRREL RD BRUSH FIRE
8 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUPSHUR 13:27
6 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ON 4460
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1002 COMMAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Flash FloodPerryville1 killedA 44 year old white female was walking down CR 4583 when she fell and was swept off the road by swift flood waters. County Emergency officials tried to rescue her but she was unable to hold onto a lift rope and she drowned. Time of death was approximated around 330 pm cdt.
January 1995HailPerryville$40,000Hen egg-size hail damaged roofs and automobiles.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A tree was blown down on FM 1647 near FM 852.
March 2019HailPerryville-Golfball size hail fell in the Perryville community.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A large tree was downed on a wheelchair ramp at the Perryville Methodist Church in the Perryville community. Trees were also downed nearby on FM 2088 near County Road 852.
June 2019Flash FloodPerryville-A portion of County Road 4536 was washed out with high water over the road.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Numerous trees down across the area.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPerryville-A few trees toppled blocking roads.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPerryville-Several large trees down.
March 2000HailPerryville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindPerryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pineview2.9 miles13
Ogburn3.9 miles14
Westbrook6.2 miles13
Musgrove7.2 miles13
Stout7.4 miles12
East Point7.8 miles12
Little Hope7.9 miles12
Winnsboro9.5 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on PerryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119873087The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378850. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.